Chadwick stereo flap camera shutter.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1880 - 1890
Materials
Wood, Elastic cord
Measurements
58 x 154 x 30 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524728
Summary
Chadwick stereo flap camera shutter. Wooden with brass metal hinge and knob and elastic cord tension. Designed to fit over lenses. Markings: cream plate screwed on front, printed in black text: "W. I. Chadwick. Manchester".
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986